Will Oremus of The Stanford Daily Writes
Yet critics, such as Stanford Education Prof. Linda Darling-Hammond, contend that the program hurts the very students and schools it purports to help. Darling-Hammond has two main objections.
First, recruits undergo only five weeks of training, as opposed to the year of postgraduate study required to obtain teaching certification in most states. Darling-Hammond said she believes that this leaves recruits woefully unprepared to face the complex issues that arise in classroom situations and runs counter to her goal of “professionalizing” teaching.
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